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Before the beginning of time, GOD WAS!! The entire Most Blessed Trinity always existed as ONE GOD!! GOD the FATHER, GOD the SON, and GOD the HOLY GHOST!! THREE DIVINE PERSONS all in ONE GOD!! Three, Separate PERSONS and yet One DIVINITY!!

Although this is enough to almost blow my mind, occasionally I like to try to think of God before He Created everything!! Imagine the existence of God in nothingness. In fact, God existed even before nothingness existed. Before nothing existed, nothingness existed. Before nothingness existed, GOD existed!!

God existed before the beginning of time!! There was no space, no air, no color, no light, no darkness, no Heaven, no substance, no matter, no nothing because even nothing is something.

God—The Most Blessed Trinity—just dwelt among Himself. And, to think of how the Three Separate Persons of God dwelt among Himself as One God—well, we, in our human minds, just cannot comprehend that!! The Three Separate Persons in One God—without any solid matter or solid substance (as Their Substance is Supernatural and Divine)—dwelling in the Joy and Beauty of Himself as One God is just unimaginable!! But, yet, I sense the Loneliness that The Three Separate Persons in One God experienced. Our One God—our Triune God—was Lonely in the sense that He wanted to Share His Beauty, His Happiness, His Joy with other beings. So, that is why He created Heaven and earth, the Angels, mankind, animals, the birds of the air and the fish of the sea. Our Triune God was filled with so much Love and Joy that He wanted to share all this. But, He had no one to share it with. So, that is why He created the entire universe—Heaven and earth!!

Our Divine Triune God is a God of Love!! Honor Him, glorify Him, worship Him, love Him above ALL THINGS!! He waits for you to either deepen your love and devotion to Him or to return back to Him!! He is YOUR God, whether you believe it or not or whether you accept Him or not!! GOD EXISTS!! GOD WAS, GOD IS, AND GOD ALWAYS WILL BE!! THE ALPHA AND THE OMEGA, WORLD WITHOUT END!!!

Back in late 1983 or early 1984, when I was in eighth grade, each student had to make some kind of booklet, as an assignment. Well, my little booklet was about my experience at my first Rosary Vigil at the apparition site of Our Lady of the Roses, Mary Help of Mothers!! I am going to type, word-for-word, what I wrote in that little booklet because it is my testimonial. If I have any comments to be made, I will put them in parentheses and in blue. My eighth grade teacher gave me an “A” on this booklet and she said that “this can be a keep sake” that I can look back at in years to come. She was right!! Please keep in mind that I was 14 years old when I wrote this. So, this is the innocent writing of a 14 year-old girl. You can laugh when you’d like, because some of this is kind of funny!! Please enjoy!!

It was during the morning of August the 12th. of the year 1983. My mother was checking to see if we both had our things that we’d need for this long ride we were going on.

My father just pulled in the driveway after just coming back from Kroger’s. My grandma has been here since last night, watching my brothers and trying to keep them out of my mother’s hair.

Finally, it’s time for my mother and I to go to Miracle Mile with our luggages and food. (Everyone had to meet there because this was where the chartered bus was going to pick us up at.)

When we got there, people were already loading the bus. I’m not sure what the bus was called. It may have been something like “Speedway”. (It wasn’t called that.)It’s got one of those bathroom’s in the back of the bus where you have to lock the door to turn the lights on.(Okay, I’m laughing at this comment!!) When I first got on the bus, I wasn’t sure if I was going to like this long ride all of the way up to Bayside (Flushing), N. Y.

Anyways, the bus was to go up to Adrian, Michigan to pick up some people there. So, here we go, about an hour away from Toledo. We went up and down these alleys and couldn’t find find the people. (Keep in mind, this was a chartered bus—I’m about to fall over laughing at this thought!!) One of the drivers there (you see, the drivers take turns driving in the night) said that the people that we were suppose to pick up, were all the way back in Toledo at the Miracle Mile, waiting for us. (I’m laughing so hard I about have tears coming out of my eyes!!) So, everybody kind of complained, but we went back there and got them. Then, we drove all night on the bus. We stopped twice. One was 11:00 p.m. and the other was 3:00 a.m.

On the way there, we said our Rosaries and they showed us different, miraculous, pictures that were taken in N.Y.

We drove all night and then at about 6:00 a.m., we stopped for breakfast for about an hour. Then, we got back on the bus and we continued driving until about 2:30 p.m. We got to our motel, just about 15 minutes away from the Vatican Pavillion Site. Then, at 6:00 p.m. we had to meet back at the bus and go somewhere for dinner.

We had to be at the Holy Grounds at 8:30 p.m. because that’s when the Vigil’s start. We got there around 7:30 p.m. and we individually had to say an “Act of Contrition”. Vigil’s start at 8:30 p.m. (They now begin at 7:30 p.m., as directed by Our Lady.)My mom, my Aunt Carmen, and her friend and I had to find a place to put our chairs and things. Then from 8:30 – 9:00 we had to walk around the Site in a parade form, with other people, and with lit candles as we were saying the Rosary. Someone, way ahead of us, was carrying the a beautiful statue of Our Lady. Then, from 9:00-11:00 p.m. we had to sit and constantly pray the Rosary aloud. I might also like to say that Veronica (the seer) wasn’t there. If she isn’t, then one of Our Lady’s Workers will tell you when to kneel, in the Presence of Our Lord and Our Lady. If you go there and Veronica isn’t there, and if you look up in the sky, you will see the Heavens open and that is when Our Lady and Our Lord come down. (Note: As I found out several years later, not everyone sees this!! I did!! It was a very cloudy night and this took place AFTER what I am about to reveal next. This opening took approximately 15 minutes and it started off in the sky slightly behind my left shoulder!! It was quite an INCREDIBLE sight to see!! It was as if SOMETHING MAGNIFICENT was coming the clouds were making way for IT!! After the clouds were done parting, there was no cloud left in the sky!!)

It was about 9:30 at night (shortly beforehand, I heard this interior voice say to me: “Keep your eyes on the skies” and so I did)and I looked up at the Heavens and saw two tiny openings.(They were circular openings of the same circumference right next to each other). Something, as I described as a Cape, was coming down (through) one of them. I looked away, then I looked back, and to my surprise, it was Our Lady, the Blessed Virgin Mary!! You couldn’t see Her Face or Feet, but the only thing that could be seen was Her Figure, Her Spirit. (She looked very similar to THE MIRACULOUS PICTURE OF OUR LADY IN THE SKY, which is seen here.)

The next thing, this lady (Aunt Carmen’s friend) was telling me the next day, that she smelled a strong scent of perfume (coming from me) and she said she was going to ask me what kind of perfume it was. My mom said that I wasn’t wearing any. My mom said that every time she took a picture, she may have smelled roses. Then, the most exciting thing that happened was that my mother gave me her mother’s Rosary . My mother had some that I could choose from to take with me. Anyways, the one I took, well it’s chain, the Rosary chain, turned to a gold color!! (Honestly, the most exciting thing that happened was seeing Our Lady, but I was just a girl writing this!!) My mother looked at it when we got home and told me that it was indeed a gold color!! She also saw that Jesus, on my Crucifix of my Rosary, turned to a copper color. She was telling us, too (my grandma and I, that is)that that night we got home, my father had pulled the bureau out and my mother said that she smelled roses coming from that pace. (Roses may come from St. Therese the Little Flower). It’s like Our Lady’s saying: “I was with you there, and I’m with you now, and wherever you go.”

I also never did mention that during that pilgrimage we visited some Shrines and we went to Mass both Saturday and Sunday.

This beautiful story of grace, peace and redemption opened publicly on June 18, 1970 when the Mother of God visited Veronica Lueken on the grounds of the old St. Robert Bellarmine Church in Bayside, New York and later at the Vatican Pavilion site (blessed by Pope Paul VI) in Flushing Meadows Park, New York. Beginning in 1968, St. Theresa the Little Flower prepared Veronica for these Heavenly apparitions.

It was at the original St. Robert Bellarmine Church in Bayside, New York, that Jesus and Mary would regularly appear to Veronica from 1970 to 1975. The Virgin promised that a miraculous spring of curative waters will one day erupt on these grounds (just like in Lourdes, France) and that She will also appear over this church building (May 17, 1986). Also, it is here that will rise the magnificent basilica prophesied by Our Lady.

For 25 years, the Virgin Mary and Her Divine Son would appear to this mother of five children during Rosary Vigils until her passing in 1995. At the request of Our Lady, a Sunday Holy Hour for the Pope and priests was also established.

Over 300 comprehensive messages packed with guidance and wisdom for these latter days were transmitted through this seer named by Heaven, Veronica of the Cross.

The lay Order of St. Michael, a vibrant community of dedicated, celibate men have been appointed by Heaven to lead this global mission. Our Lady has prophesied that from this lay order will emerge the full-fledged religious Order of St. Michael, an order founded on tradition, which will also include women. The Vatican Pavilion Site

The prayer services have been held here since May 1975. Jesus and Mary regularly appeared here to Veronica of the Cross from 1975 to 1994. Michelangelo’s Pieta was exhibited here during the 1964-65 New York World’s Fair and it was on October 4, 1965 that Pope Paul VI capped off his historic journey to the United States with a visit here, bestowing an Apostolic Blessing to the multitudes. Our Lady has also stated that curative waters will erupt and a magnificent basilica will be erected at the original site of St. Robert’s.

The Vigils and Holy Hours continue to this day at the Vatican Pavilion inspired by Our Lord’s promise: “We have made Our home upon these grounds.” Cures and conversions abound and for countless pilgrims, faith and hope have been restored. We invite you to join us.

Scientists have created more than 150 human-animal hybrid embryos in British laboratories. The hybrids have been produced secretively over the past three years by researchers looking into possible cures for a wide range of diseases.

The revelation comes just a day after a committee of scientists warned of a nightmare ‘Planet of the Apes’ scenario in which work on human-animal creations goes too far.

The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority is currently considering whether donors can be paid for their services

Last night a campaigner against the excesses of medical research said he was disgusted that scientists were ‘dabbling in the grotesque’.

Figures seen by the Daily Mail show that 155 ‘admixed’ embryos, containing both human and animal genetic material, have been created since the introduction of the 2008 Human Fertilisation Embryology Act.

This legalised the creation of a variety of hybrids, including an animal egg fertilised by a human sperm; ‘cybrids’, in which a human nucleus is implanted into an animal cell; and ‘chimeras’, in which human cells are mixed with animal embryos.

Scientists say the techniques can be used to develop embryonic stem cells which can be used to treat a range of incurable illnesses.

Three labs in the UK – at King’s College London, Newcastle University and Warwick University – were granted licences to carry out the research after the Act came into force.

All have now stopped creating hybrid embryos due to a lack of funding, but scientists believe that there will be more such work in the future.

The figure was revealed to crossbench peer Lord Alton following a Parliamentary question.

Research centre: Warwick University has been growing animal human hybrids over the last three years

Last night he said: ‘I argued in Parliament against the creation of human- animal hybrids as a matter of principle. None of the scientists who appeared before us could give us any justification in terms of treatment.

‘Ethically it can never be justifiable – it discredits us as a country. It is dabbling in the grotesque.

‘At every stage the justification from scientists has been: if only you allow us to do this, we will find cures for every illness known to mankind. This is emotional blackmail.

‘Of the 80 treatments and cures which have come about from stem cells, all have come from adult stem cells – not embryonic ones.
‘On moral and ethical grounds this fails; and on scientific and medical ones too.’

Josephine Quintavalle, of pro-life group Comment on Reproductive Ethics, said: ‘I am aghast that this is going on and we didn’t know anything about it.

‘Why have they kept this a secret? If they are proud of what they are doing, why do we need to ask Parliamentary questions for this to come to light?

‘The problem with many scientists is that they want to do things because they want to experiment. That is not a good enough rationale.’

Test centre: Newcastle University was another site where human animal hybrid testing was being undertaken

Earlier this week, a group of leading scientists warned about ‘Planet of the Apes’ experiments. They called for new rules to prevent lab animals being given human attributes, for example by injecting human stem cells into the brains of primates.

But the lead author of their report, Professor Robin Lovell-Badge, from the Medical Research Council’ s National Institute for Medical Research, said the scientists were not concerned about human-animal hybrid embryos because by law these have to be destroyed within 14 days.

He said: ‘The reason for doing these experiments is to understand more about early human development and come up with ways of curing serious diseases, and as a scientist I feel there is a moral imperative to pursue this research.

‘As long as we have sufficient controls – as we do in this country – we should be proud of the research.’

However, he called for stricter controls on another type of embryo research, in which animal embryos are implanted with a small amount of human genetic material.

Human-animal hybrids are also created in other countries, many of which have little or no regulation.

In 1917 the Blessed Virgin at Fatima warned that if her requests to convert Russia were not heeded the agents of Communism would later infiltrate the Church with their errors. Vatican II provided a perfect opening for this Red influence to seep into the Church. The plan in 1962 was to invite the Soviets to the Second Vatican Council which is why certain dissident cardinals met secretly in France before the Council to sign the infamous 1962 Moscow-Vatican Agreement with Archbishop Nikodim. Russia’s objective was to subvert the Church through the Council so it was crucial to their plan that the Church first be bound by a treaty that promised there would be no censure of Communism at the Council. Since 1962 the Church’s hands and feet have been bound by this treaty while the agents of Communism have been gleefully at work dismantling the Church without censure.

Communist Infiltration of Catholic Seminaries

Anatoliy Golitsyn was formerly a high-ranking KGB official involved in espionage and counter-espionage who defected to the Unites States in 1961. In 1985, Golitsyn reported that Russian Orthodox priests are controlled and directed by the KGB in order to promote cooperation between Soviet churches and Western Catholics to help establish a united front for disarmament (peace and justice movements) and convergence. In 1990 Golitsyn warned against the Vatican’s (1962) policy of appeasement with the Communist Party:

“The Vatican should reverse its mistaken support for the renewal of the Communist régimes… It fails to understand that greater apparent official tolerance of religion is accompanied by a secret drive to increase Party and KGB penetration of the Catholic and other churches and to use agents therein for political and strategic purposes. As part of the program to destroy religion from within, the KGB, in the late 1950s started sending dedicated young Communists to ecclesiastical academies and seminaries to train them as future church leaders. These young Communists joined the Church at the call of the Communist Party… to implement its general line [unchanged policy] in the struggle against religion.”

Memoirs of a Communist Agent

Back in the 60s the memoirs of a Communist agent were discovered by a French nurse named Marie Carre while attending to an auto accident in which the agent was killed. In his briefcase was found a set of biographical notes which she kept and read, and then decided to publish because of their extraordinary content. The end result is a little book entitled, AA 1025—The Memoirs of an Anti-Apostle, which reveals the sentiments and plans of this Communist who had deliberately entered the priesthood (along with others) with the intention of subverting and destroying the Catholic Church from within. The following excerpt is taken from his notes:

“It was during those days that I launched on the market the program that would allow Catholics to be accepted by Protestants… I prophesied with assurance the suppression of Latin, of priestly vestments, of statues and images, of candles and prie-dieu (so that they could kneel no more). And I also started a very active campaign for the suppression of the Sign of the Cross. This Sign, and also genuflections, are all ridiculous customs. I also prophesied (and we were then in 1940) the disappearance of altars, replaced by a completely bare table, and also of all the crucifixes, in order that Christ be considered as a man, not as a God. I insisted that Mass be only a community meal, to which all would be invited, even unbelievers… I searched for the means of suppressing the Pope. I consoled myself by hoping that we would surely succeed in making him look foolish.”

Communist Infiltration of the Catholic Hierarchy

Manning Johnson, a former official of the Communist Party in America, gave the following testimony in 1953 to the House Un-American Activities Committee: “Once the tactic of infiltration of religious organizations was set by the Kremlin… the communists discovered that the destruction of religion could proceed much faster through the infiltration of the Church by communists operating within the Church itself. The communist leadership in the United States realized that the infiltration tactic in this country would have to adapt itself to American conditions and the religious makeup peculiar to this country. In the earliest stages it was determined that with only small forces available to them, it would be necessary to concentrate communist agents in the seminaries. The practical conclusion drawn by the Red leaders was that these institutions would make it possible for a small communist minority to influence the ideology of future clergymen in the paths conducive to communist purposes…. The policy of infiltrating seminaries was successful beyond even our communist expectations.”

Russia today continues with its plan to subdue the Church and the world but their strategy at this time is to conceal this plan under the guise of a collapse of power. As they finalize their plan for world conquest they don’t want the world to suspect what they’re about to do (invade), so theBear is simply playing dead while secretly promoting this global pacifism (green peace) that advocates the overthrow of the establishment.

This pacifist delusion of the last times is especially evident in the Church with the false security that all are forgiven and that a day of sunshine has dawned upon Christianity. (New Pentecost) The agents of Communism infiltrated into the Church with a plan to erase from our minds any notion of punishment or divine justice so that when this scourge (Russia) came upon society and the Church we would not be ready.

Communism of course is one of the tentacles of the internationalist octopus that is working around the clock to dissolve the institution of Christianity (papacy) and bring about a New World Order. The *prospective vision of Vatican II was a new church of man with the unification of all religions so the Council was an opening for this World Council of Churches to get in the door and use the Church as a forum to advance this New Communistic Order. [Novus Ordo]

If only the world had listened to Pope Paul’s warning about Satan in the Church! With all that has transpired in the past forty years it somehow hasn’t dawned on the faithful that the ancient serpent reared its head at Vatican II and challenged the Faith to a dual! It was this very onslaught against the Faith that the Blessed Virgin was attempting to alert us to in her message at Fatima. [Third Secret] The same prompted the Holy Father’s S.O.S. of June 29, 1972: “From some fissure the smoke of satan entered into the temple of God.”

For anyone with any concern or interest in the Church the link below is a must hear. This is a sermon by an FSSP priest delivered on Sunday, June 26, the Feast of Corpus Christi. He points out that since the Eucharist is our greatest good to which we are indebted it stands that the greatest punishments from Heaven are reserved for those who receive Communion with the guilt of mortal sin on their conscience. (e.g. having engaged in fornication with the practice of birth control, immodesty, etc., without confession) According to St. Cyril of Alexandria people who receive Communion this way are throwing Christ to the infernal lions to be abused:

“They who make a sacrilegious Communion receive Satan and Jesus Christ into their hearts – Satan, that they may let him rule, and Jesus Christ, that they may offer Him in sacrifice as a Victim to Satan.” — St Cyril of Alexandria

Upon elevation of the bread and chalice at Mass the substance of bread and wine ceases to exist and becomes the very substance of Jesus Christ without sharing in any other substance. The acknowledgment of this supernatural Mystery is the first and foremost requirement placed on us by the Church in order to receive Holy Communion, without which one may not receive Communion. Should one approach the Communion rail in denial of this Dogma the verdict of Holy Scripture applies: “Therefore whosoever shall eat of this bread, or drink the chalice of the Lord unworthily, shall be guilty of the Body and the Blood of the Lord… For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh judgment to himself, not discerning the Body of the Lord.” (1 Corinthians 11: 27, 28)

Maryland county settles lawsuit over arrest, strip search of pro-life college girls

One of the young participants of the 2008 “Face the Truth” tour is arrested for peacefully protesting abortion.

Courtesy of Alliance Defense Fund

ANNAPOLIS, Maryland, March 7, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Today attorneys representing the pro-life group Defend Life, along with several participants in the group’s “Face the Truth” tour of 2008, announced the settlement of a lawsuit with Hartford County, Maryland over the arrest, jailing, and strip search of a number of pro-life advocates in August 2008.

The federal lawsuit was filed against police officers of the Maryland State Police, Hartford County, and Bel Air. The plaintiffs claimed that the police committed lawless arrests when they arrested, jailed, shackled, and/or strip searched the 18 pro-lifers after they held signs and shared their message along a public street in August 2008.

At least 12 police officers had handcuffed the peaceful participants and denied them a reason for their arrests. Three young female participants – including teenagers – were subjected to two rounds of strip searches.

“This settlement is important for both the pro-life movement and the First Amendment rights of political speakers in general,” said Christopher A. Ferrara, President and Chief Counsel of the American Catholic Lawyers Association, which is representing six of the plaintiffs in the action.

Hartford County says it is adopting a new policy for handling peaceful, nonviolent protesters and will make provisions for confidential settlements with each of the plaintiffs.

“Hartford County has rectified a terrible wrong, and we only hope the Maryland State Troopers and Bel Air Police who participated in this disgraceful roundup of peaceful pro-life advocates, including sobbing youngsters, will follow Hartford County’s lead,” said Mr. Ferrara.

In August 2008, following the arrest of the pro-lifers, the state decided not to pursue the charges against them. In September 2008, attorneys with Alliance Defense Fund, the Thomas More Society of Chicago, and the American Catholic Lawyers Association filed the complaint with the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland.

The defendants soon filed an appeal, arguing the police were acting in good faith; however, the appeal was denied in January 2011.

According to the American Catholic Lawyers’ Association (ACLA), the plaintiffs had produced enough evidence, such as the unjustified arrests and strip searches, and 911 call records, to establish that officers did not act in good faith. The ACLA charged police with having acted on a “heckler’s veto,” arresting the pro-lifers based on 911 calls, and said that the evidence pointed to police bias.

The ACLA along with special counsel from the Thomas More Society are continuing to pursue the lawsuit against the Maryland State Police and the town of Bel Air.

Shocking photo: late-term aborted baby lies in open casket at city hall funeral

Esther in her coffin at the service at which pro-life activists honored her body and her life.

Orlando, FL, July 25, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) – On this past Thursday, July 21, Fr. Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life, preached at a memorial service for an aborted baby girl.

The child was intact and her body was retrieved after a late-term abortion. The memorial service, organized by Operation Save America, was held outside of City Hall in Orlando.

“We are here because this baby was killed in the darkness, and we come to honor her in the bright light of day,” Fr. Pavone declared in his remarks. “The abortion industry wants to hide the violence done to these children, but we must be committed to expose it. Therefore we need to hold many more of these services, with tens of thousands of people looking at these children and recommitting themselves to end abortion.”

During the service, the name “Esther” was given to the child.

Fr. Frank invited any pro-life activists who obtain the remains of aborted children to be in contact with him to arrange for a proper wake service and burial.

It’s not the first time that aborted babies are afforded funerals. In 2008, Detroit Bishop John Quinnoffered a funeral for 18 aborted babies whose bodies were discovered in dumpsters at the Woman Care abortuary. Later that same year, Fr. Pavone offered a funeral for three aborted babies at the Shrine of the Most Blessed Sacrament that EWTN’s Mother Angelica built in Hanceville, Alabama. In 2010, Michigan Bishop Earl Boyea celebrated a funeral mass for 17 aborted children.

Legislation on the matter was passed in 2001 in the Czech Republic when President Vaclav Havel signed into law a bill regarding funeral arrangements which included a clause ensuring that the remains of aborted babies receive a proper burial. In 2010, in Michigan a bill was proposed to protect the remains of aborted babies from being simply discarded as biohazardous waste.